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DC Events | February 6 - February 11

Monday, February 6
Time Subject Title Host Panelist(s) RSVP
9:00 AM Persons with Disabilities, Discrimination Implementing the Right of Persons with Disabilities to Participate in Political and Public Life: Global Standards and Practice Examined AU SIS
9:00 AM DoD, 2013 Budget The Acquisition Implications of the DoD Strategic Guidance and the FY2013 Budget CSIS Frank Kendall RSVP
9:00 AM Nuclear Arms Control The Next Step for Arms Control: A Nuclear Control Regime Elliott School Jan Lodal
9:30 AM Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean The Evolution of Turkey’s Policy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Implications for U.S. interests American Hellenic Institute Daniel Pipes, Harry Dinella, Van Coufoudakis, Doug Bandow, Raphael Danziger RSVP
11:00 AM Policy, 2012 Election Policy Perspectives 2012 Cato Edward H. Crane, David Boaz, Tucker Carlson RSVP
12:00 PM Development Finance, Corruption, Indonesia Do Aid or Oil Revenue Windfalls Really Undermine Accountability? An Experiment in Indonesia CGD Laura Paler RSVP
12:00 PM Goergia-South Ossetia Georgian-South Ossetian Confidence Building Processes Wilson Center Susan Allen Nan
12:00 PM Global Economy, IMF IMF Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard on the Global Economy in 2012 Carnegie Olivier Blanchard, Philip Suttle, Uri Dadush, Vikram Nehru RSVP
12:00 PM Taiwan Taiwan Election Discussion SAIS David M. Lampton, Carla Freeman
12:00 PM Higher Education, Affirmative Action The Future of Affirmative Action in Higher Education AU Law RSVP
12:00 PM Int'l Finance, Regulation Why Regulate International Finance? GW Law Pierre Hugues Verdier
12:30 PM Russia, Civil Society The End of the Beginning? Corruption, Citizen Dissent and People Power Prospects in Russia SAIS Shaazka Beyerle RSVP
1:00 PM Adult Education, Literacy Surveying the State of Adult Education in the United States Departments of State, Education; UNESCO
2:30 PM India-U.S. Building on Convergence: Deepening the India - U.S. Strategic Partnership CSIS Ranjan Mathai, John Hamre, Karl F. Inderfurth RSVP
4:00 PM French Colonialism, North Africa Barbary Coasts: North Africa, Colonialism, and the Mediterranean, c. 1820-2011 Wilson Center Julia Clancy-Smith RSVP
4:30 PM UN, Human Rights Protecting Human Rights Through the Mechanism of U.N. Special Rapporteurs SAIS Surya Subedi RSVP
5:30 PM Classism Alternative Futures for a Fractured American Culture AEI Charles Murray RSVP
6:00 PM Amilcar Cabral, Community Activism Return to the Source: The Fundamentals of Working Towards Community Activism (Documentary) TransAfrica
6:00 PM Iraq, Civil Society Iraqi People Power: Citizens Leading the Way to Peace and Development in Iraq Busboys Iraq al-Amal and more
6:00 PM Foreign Policy Professionals, Mentoring Fair DC Annual Mentoring Fair WFPG
6:30 PM Swissair Grounding - The Last Days of Swissair (Documentary) Goethe Institute
6:30 PM El Salvador Seeking Peace in El Salvador World Affairs Council Diana Villiers Negroponte
6:30 PM Int'l AML Careers YPFP DC Tools of the Trade: Careers in International Anti-Money Laundering YPFP Truman Butler, Bruce Zagaris, Stephanie Brooker, Danielle Camner Lindholm, Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Michael Buffardi RSVP
 

Tuesday, February 7
Time Subject Title Host Panelist(s) RSVP
9:30 AM Israel, Greentech Greener, Cleaner, Better: Israeli Innovation in Greentech AU SPA Michael Granoff RSVP
9:30 AM Military Spending, Stealth Bomber New Stealth Bomber and Future Warfare Washington Security Forum Rebecca Grant, John Corley
9:30 AM Internet, Global Communication The Global Internet and the Free Flow of Information MAP Forum Ben Scott, Bob Boorstin, Cynthia Wong, David Sullivan, Christopher Soghoian, Ashkan Soltani, Mark MacCarthy RSVP
10:00 AM Energy Innovation, Federal Budget Energy Innovation in a Time of Fiscal Austerity and Policy Uncertainty Bipartisan Policy Richard K. Lester, David M. Hart RSVP
10:00 AM Higher Education, Open CourseWare Open Source Higher Education CAP Martha Kanter, Nicole Allen, Michael Carroll, Sally Johnstone RSVP
10:00 AM Arab Spring, Arab Economies The Arab Spring: The Challenge for Business in North Africa and the Middle East 2012 Press Club Richard Fenning
10:30 AM Charles Dickens, London Childhood Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London Politics and Prose Andrea Warren
11:00 AM European Union The State of the European Union Heritage Derk Jan Eppink, Jan Zahradil, Geoffrey Van Orden RSVP
11:45 AM Euro Crisis, Employment Impact of the Euro Crisis on Employment Georgetown László Andor RSVP
12:00 PM Pakistan Pakistani Meltdown: Choosing Between Democracy and Dictatorship CNP Shuja Nawaz, Moeed Yusuf RSVP
12:10 PM UN CAT United Nations Committee Against Torture Project (Student Program) AU Law RSVP
1:30 PM Women Boomers, Retirement First Tuesday -- Can Boomer Women Afford to Retire? Urban Institute Barbara Bovbjerg, Mary Beth Franklin, Heidi Hartmann, Richard Johnson, Jack VanDerhei RSVP
3:00 PM Arab Uprisings The Arab Revolts and Their Consequences ICMES W. Patrick Lang, Chas. W. Freeman, Paul R. Pillar RSVP
5:00 PM EU Europe's Eastern Neighborhood Policy SAIS Daniel Hamilton RSVP
5:30 PM Gen. David Petraeus All In: The Education of General David Petraeus CSIS Paula Broadwell, Vernon Loeb
6:00 PM Soviet Union Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union SAIS David Satter RSVP
6:00 PM African Diaspora Building Community with the African Diaspora Busboys Johnnetta Cole, Nicole Lee
6:30 PM Church and State A Surprising Cast of Characters: King Belshazzar, Pope Leo XIII, and the 2012 Election (Waitlist Only) EPPC William E. Simon
6:30 PM Foreign Service Careers YPFP DC Tools of the Trade: An Inside Look to Careers in the Foreign Service YPFP Lynn W. Roche, Jeffrey Bozworth, Jeffrey Levine, Mary D. Draper RSVP
7:00 PM Tea Party, Conservatism The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism Politics and Prose Theda Skocpol, Vanessa Williamson
7:00 PM DC The Honorable Mayor Vincent C. Gray: 2012 State of the District Address Sixth & I Synagogue Vincent C. Gray
7:30 PM Medical Ethics, African Americans The Continuum: A Panel Discussion / From Fortune to Henrietta Lacks and Beyond Oxon Hill Library
 

Wednesday, February 8
Time Subject Title Host Panelist(s) RSVP
7:00 AM Federal IT Performance Under Pressure: Visualize, Optimize, Realize Solutions to Succeed GovExec Keith Trippie, Rory D. Schultz, Sasi Kumar Pillay, Peter M Cuviello, Robert "Bob" Beauchamp and more RSVP
9:00 AM Singapore Singapore Conference CSIS K. Shanmugam, Ashok Mirpuri, Charlene Barshefsky, Chee Wee Kiong, Linda Darling-Hammond and more RSVP
9:30 AM Cybersecurity Cybersecurity: Threats to Communications Networks and Private-Sector Responses House Energy & Commerce
9:30 AM Mexican Economy Dialogues with Mexico/Diálogos con México Wilson Center Pedro Aspe RSVP
9:30 AM New Energy, Petroleum Unconventional Oil: Illuminating the Global Paradigm Shift to New Petroleum Fuels Carnegie Juliet Eilperin, James Burkhard, Brenda Brenda Pierce, David Burwell, Deborah Gordon RSVP
10:00 AM Health Information Exchanges Policy Megachange and Health Information Exchanges Brookings Janet Marchibroda, John Piescik, P. Jon White, Claudia Williams RSVP
11:30 AM Health Care Quality The Quality Measure Enterprise, NQF's Role and Hot Topics in Quality Northern Virginia Health Policy Forum Tom Valuck
11:45 AM Legal Scholarship, Mormanism WIP: Nate Oman GW Law Nate Oman
12:00 PM FCC, Indecency Regulations Freedom of Speech and Freedom From Harm: Debating the FCC's Indecency Regulations as Framed by FCC v. Fox Television AU Law Craig Parshall, Chris Gacek, David Petron, Trevor Burrus RSVP
12:00 PM Political Novel, Conservatism The Liberty Intrigue (Fiction) Heritage Tom Grace RSVP
12:00 PM Iran The Iranian Threat Hudson Douglas Farah, Celina Realuyo, Didziulis Vytenis RSVP
12:30 PM Muslim World Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism Georgetown Jonathan Lyons RSVP
12:30 PM Turkey, Iran, Russia Turkey, Iran and Russia: Nexus SAIS Stephen Flanagan
12:30 PM Global Gender Imbalance Unnatural Selection: Probing the Consequences of a Global Gender Imbalance SAIS Mara Hvistendahl RSVP
12:45 PM Latin America, Banking Beyond Banking: Promoting Sustainability in Latin America's Financial Services SAIS Daniela Carrera Marquis RSVP
1:00 PM Middle East, Activism A Conversation with IPS Fellow Phyllis Bennis and Ethelbert Miller IPS Phyllis Bennis, Ethelbert Miller
2:00 PM Egypt, Arab Spring Meet the Press at Brookings: The Egypt Revolution One Year On Brookings Thomas Friedman, Shadi Hamid, Martin S. Indyk, Tamara Wittes RSVP
2:00 PM EMPs, Power Grid Threats to the Energy Sector - Electromagnetic Pulse (EMPs) InfraGard Dave Hunt, Chuck Manto
2:00 PM Intermarium, Geopolitics Intermarium: Geopolitics IWP Marek Chodakiewicz
2:30 PM East Asia, Int'l Economy Washington Asian Forum: "Who Accomodates Chinese Interests?" AU SIS Scott L. Kastner
2:45 PM Adult Education Building Our Competitive Edge: How Adult Education Leverages Multi-System Partnerships for Student Success CLASP Barry Shaffer, Rita Daniels, Tom DuBois RSVP
3:00 PM America and Global Power Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power CSIS Zbigniew Brzezinski RSVP
3:00 PM 2008 Mumbai Attack, Crisis Management The Unfinished Crisis: US Crisis Management After the 2008 Mumbai Attack Stimson Polly Nayak, Michael Krepon
5:00 PM Government and Corporations Power, Inc. The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government—and the Reckoning that Lies Ahead Carnegie David Rothkopf, Robert Hormats, Daniel Yergin, Ed Luce RSVP
5:30 PM Civil Rights A New Frontier of Civil Rights AU Law Melanca Clark, Darren Hutchinson, Angela Davis, James A. Ferg-Cadima, Victor Goode RSVP
5:30 PM Oil and Int'l Politics Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil Elliott School Timothy Mitchell RSVP
5:30 PM Japan-U.S. Japan's Mega-Disaster: An On-the-Ground Perspective Georgetown John V. Roos RSVP
6:00 PM Foreign Policy Progressives, Networking Foreign Policy Progressives Networking Reception America's Impact
6:00 PM Black Freedom Struggle We Ain't What We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama Portrait Gallery Stephen Tuck
6:30 PM Libertarians, Conservatives Are Libertarians Part of the Conservative Movement? AEI Jonah Goldberg, Matt Welch RSVP
6:30 PM Terrorism Life After Death (Documentary) Buxton Initiative Hedieh Mirahmadi, Dan Sutherland
6:45 PM Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer Dürer and the Idea of the Artist in the Renaissance Goethe Institute Lorena Baines RSVP
8:00 PM Government Size & Scope Debate: Is Government the Problem or the Solution? Ayn Rand Center Yaron Brook, David Callahan
 

Thursday, February 9
Time Subject Title Host Panelist(s) RSVP
8:30 AM No Child Left Behind, GOP Chairman Kline Unveils GOP Vision to Fix No Child Left Behind AEI John Kline RSVP
8:30 AM South Asia, Job Growth Job Growth in South Asia CSIS Kalpana Kochhar, Pablo Gottret, Reema Nayar, Karl Inderfurth, Meredith Broadbent and more RSVP
9:00 AM Conservatism CPAC 2012 Conference (Day 1 of 3) American Conservative Union RSVP
9:00 AM Development, Field Work Working in the Field: If They Let You In GMU S-CAR Susan Collin Marks
9:30 AM Conservatism, 2012 Election Judicial Watch: 2012 Election Integrity Project (CPAC - Virginia Ball Room) Judicial Watch Tom Fitton
9:30 AM Burundi Land Conflict in Burundi, Lessons Learned and New Challenges SAIS Kelsey Jones-Casey, Frances Fortune RSVP
9:30 AM Bahrain The Unfinished February 14 Uprising: What Next for Bahrain? POMED Ron Wyden, Elliott Abrams, Joost Hiltermann, Colin Kahl RSVP
10:00 AM Latin America, Free Speech Silencing Dissent: The Assault on Free Speech in Latin America AEI Milton Coleman, Rafael Cuesta, Joel Hirst, Nicholas Perez RSVP
11:15 AM Labor Movement, Wisconsin & Ohio Return of Big Labor: What Can We Learn from Wisconsin & Ohio? (CPAC) CEI
12:00 PM Child Trafficking, Ghana Child Trafficking in Ghana: Insights of James Kofi Annan, a Former Child Victim AU Law James Kofi Annan
12:00 PM Iran An Assessment of Iran’s Upcoming Parliamentary Elections Wilson Center, Boel Hosein Ghazian, Geneive Abdo RSVP
12:00 PM Smart Grid EPC Forum Presents: Smart Regulation and Federalism For the Smart Grid JHU Joel Eisen RSVP
12:00 PM Colombia Intercepting Democracy: Colombia's Intelligence Service vs. Civil Liberties NED Hollman Morris, Brandon Yoder RSVP
12:00 PM Federally-Funded Research The Future of Public Access to Taxpayer-Funded Research CED Elliot E. Maxwell RSVP
12:30 PM Refugees, India Partition Remembering Refugees: Stories from the 1947 Partition of India from Mumbai, and Beyond Elliott School Kavita Daiya RSVP
2:00 PM Regulation Modeling REMI Webinar: New Industry Regulation: What Does it Mean for the Economy? REMI
2:00 PM IMF, Financial Crises Global Currency War, Endless Financial Crises: What's Wrong with the International Monetary System? AEI Robert Aliber, Anne Kruger, Desmond Lachman, John H. Makin RSVP
2:00 PM Energy, Environment, Population The Intersection of Energy, Environment and Population Bridging Nations Michael Trachtenberg, Richard Jackson, Scott Hutchins
2:30 PM Female Attorneys Maintaining Integrity in the Legal Field: Progressive Women Gaining Ground on the High Road AU Law RSVP
3:30 PM Development, Mobile Technology Mobile Disconnect: Can Mobile Solutions Really Combat Global Poverty? New America Maura O’Neill, Ed Al-Hussainy, Kentaro Toyama, Katrin Verclas
4:00 PM Arab Spring One Year Later: Has the Arab Spring Lived Up to Expectations Georgetown John L. Esposito, Heba Raouf, Radwan Ziadeh RSVP
4:00 PM Independent Voters The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents Wilson Center Linda Killian, Kevin Merida RSVP
4:00 PM State-Society, Azerbaijan State-Society Relations in Hybrid Regimes: The Case of Azerbaijan Elliott School Gokhan Alper Ataser RSVP
5:00 PM United Arab Emirates A Discussion With United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba SAIS Yousef Al Otaiba RSVP
5:30 PM Development Young Professionals Workgroup Planning Meeting SID Jason Eisen, Nicholas Bell RSVP
6:00 PM Cairo, Child Homelessness Taking Care of Wounds: An Ethnography of Humanitarian Medicine and the Condition of Child Homelessness in Cairo Georgetown Rania K. Sweis RSVP
6:00 PM Social Media Finding Your Influencers and Your Audience (Workshop) Press Club Shaun Dakin RSVP
7:00 PM Conservative Populism The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right Politics and Prose Arthur Goldwag
 

Friday, February 10
Time Subject Title Host Panelist(s) RSVP
9:00 AM Immigration, Prosecutorial Discretion Prosecutorial Discretion: A Progress Report on Implementing New Guidelines and Policies MPI Doris Meissner, Seth Grossman, Juan P. Osuna, Jim Stolley, Crystal L. Williams RSVP
9:00 AM Religion and Society Standing Seminar: Religion & Human Personhood, Culture, and Society Berkley Center Christian Smith, Phil Zuckerman, Nancy Ammerman, José Casanova, Hent de Vries and more
10:00 AM Turkey Turkey's Foreign Policy Objectives in a Changing World CSIS Ahmet Davutoğlu
10:30 AM Networking The 4Ps Workshop Series: Professional Networking AU Law
12:00 PM Coptic Christians Coptic Diaspora Survey: Implications for Egypt and its Development IdEA Pradeep Ramamurthy, Bishop Angaelos
12:00 PM Personal Branding International Trade Career Roundtable: Personal Branding WITA Joe Rio RSVP
12:15 PM Economic Mobility Economic Mobility: What’s the Problem and What to Do About It? New America Scott Winship, Heather McGhee, Shawn Fremstad, Reid Cramer
12:30 PM China, Afghanistan, Pakistan China, Pakistan and Afghanistan: Security and Trade SAIS Guang Pa
1:00 PM Think Tanks, Int'l Exchange Launch Event: ThinkTankLINKS Fellowship Atlas Corps, CIPE
1:00 PM New START New START at One Year: Implementation and Looking to the Future Brookings Michael Elliott, James Acton, Rose Gottemoeller, Jan Lodal, Ted Warner RSVP
2:00 PM Social Media, Social Justice Media That Matters 2012: Change for Good (Day 1 of 2) AU Center for Social Media RSVP
3:00 PM Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Ambassador Event AU SIS Mitar Kujundzic
3:30 PM Black Colleges School Daze (Film) SAIS RSVP
5:00 PM Egypt, Arab Spring Liberation Square: Inside the Egyptian Revolution and the Rebirth of a Nation: A Conversation with Ashraf Khalil Elliott School Ashraf Khalil RSVP
7:00 PM The Brain, Neuroscience Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are Politics and Prose Sebastian Seung
7:30 PM Concert Performance Soprano Victoria Loukianetz Embassy of Ukraine, Embassy of Austria Victoria Loukianetz
 

Saturday, February 11
Time Subject Title Host Panelist(s) RSVP
6:00 PM Obama Criticism The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them Politics and Prose Bill Press
 

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